Analyzing Atonal Music

Analyzing Atonal Music
Author: Michiel Schuijer
Publisher: University Rochester Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2008
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781580462709

For the past 40 years, pitch-class set theory has served as a frame of reference for the study of atonal music, through the efforts of Allan Forte, Milton Babbitt, and others. This text combines thorough discussions of musical concepts with an historical narrative.

The Structure of Atonal Music

The Structure of Atonal Music
Author: Allen Forte
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1973-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780300021202

Describes and cites examples of pitch-class sets and relations in atonal music

Schoenberg's Atonal Music

Schoenberg's Atonal Music
Author: Jack Boss
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2019-07-04
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1108419135

Portrays Schoenberg's atonal music as successions of motives and pitch-class sets that flesh out 'musical idea' and 'basic image' frameworks.

Twentieth-century Music Theory and Practice

Twentieth-century Music Theory and Practice
Author: Edward Pearsall
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2012
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0415888956

Twentieth-Century Music Theory and Practice introduces a number of tools for analyzing a wide range of twentieth-century musical styles and genres. It includes discussions of harmony, scales, rhythm, contour, post-tonal music, set theory, the twelve-tone method, and modernism. Recent developments involving atonal voice leading, K-nets, nonlinearity, and neo-Reimannian transformations are also engaged. While many of the theoretical tools for analyzing twentieth century music have been devised to analyze atonal music, they may also provide insight into a much broader array of styles. This text capitalizes on this idea by using the theoretical devices associated with atonality to explore music inclusive of a large number of schools and contains examples by such stylistically diverse composers as Paul Hindemith, George Crumb, Ellen Taffe Zwilich, Steve Reich, Michael Torke, Philip Glass, Alexander Scriabin, Ernest Bloch, Igor Stravinsky, Béla Bartók, Sergei Prokofiev, Arnold Schoenberg, Claude Debussy, György Ligeti, and Leonard Bernstein. This textbook also provides a number of analytical, compositional, and written exercises. The aural skills supplement and online aural skills trainer on the companion website allow students to use theoretical concepts as the foundation for analytical listening. Access additional resources and online material here: http: //www.twentiethcenturymusictheoryandpractice.net and https: //www.motivichearing.com/.

Understanding Post-Tonal Music

Understanding Post-Tonal Music
Author: Miguel A. Roig-Francolí
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2021-02-25
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1000332632

Understanding Post-Tonal Music is a student-centered textbook that explores the compositional and musical processes of twentieth-century post-tonal music. Intended for undergraduate or general graduate courses on the theory and analysis of twentieth-century music, this book will increase the accessibility of post-tonal music by providing students with tools for understanding pitch organization, rhythm and meter, form, texture, and aesthetics. By presenting the music first and then deriving the theory, Understanding Post-Tonal Music leads students to greater understanding and appreciation of this challenging and important repertoire. The updated second edition includes new "Explorations" features that guide students to engage with pieces through listening and a process of exploration, discovery, and discussion; a new chapter covering electronic, computer, and spectral musics; and additional coverage of music from the twenty-first century and recent trends. The text has been revised throughout to enhance clarity, both by streamlining the prose and by providing a visual format more accessible to the student.

Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music

Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music
Author: Stefan Kostka
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2018-03-13
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1351859218

Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music, Fifth Edition provides the most comprehensive introduction to post-tonal music and its analysis available. Covering music from the end of the nineteenth century through the beginning of the twenty-first, it offers students a clear guide to understanding the diverse and innovative compositional strategies that emerged in the post-tonal era, from Impressionism to computer music. This updated fifth edition features: chapters revised throughout to include new examples from recent music and insights from the latest scholarship; the introduction of several new concepts and topics, including parsimonius voice-leading, scalar transformations, the New Complexity, and set theory in less chromatic contexts; expanded discussions of spectralism and electronic music; timelines in each chapter, grounding the music discussed in its chronological context; a companion website that provides students with links to recordings of musical examples discussed in the text and provides instructors with an instructor’s manual that covers all of the exercises in each chapter. Offering accessible explanations of complex concepts, Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music, Fifth Edition is an essential text for all students of post-tonal music theory.

Performative Analysis

Performative Analysis
Author: Jeffrey Swinkin
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2016
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1580465269

This book proposes a new model for understanding the musical work, which includes interpretation -- both analysis- and performance-based -- as an integral component.

Explaining Tonality

Explaining Tonality
Author: Matthew Brown
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2005
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1580461603

A defense of Schenkerian analysis of tonality in music.

Analyzing the Music of Living Composers (and Others)

Analyzing the Music of Living Composers (and Others)
Author: Jack Boss
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2014-07-24
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1443864714

Analyzing the Music of Living Composers (and Others) is a collection of essays that grew out of the 2010 annual meeting of the West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis. The stated purpose was to apply traditional music-analytic techniques, as well as new, innovative techniques, to describing the music of composers of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The goal was to take steps toward making the music of our time a bit less impenetrable for our colleagues, students and other listeners by showing how it follows, varies, and sometimes controverts the organizational schemes of older music. This collection includes chapters analyzing music of older eras as well, including a number that throw light on the analysis of recent music in unexpected ways, and there are also several chapters that propose innovative analytic approaches to recent popular music and jazz.